Re: My second wedding

[P3D Carrano, Allan <allan.carrano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. T writes:

>My attempts to photograph weddings and get paid have failed so far.  It
>must be a combination of things:  Cost (I present this as a supplement 
>to regular 2D prints), novelty (people are conservative and hesitate to 
>try something new)...

Right again, George.  Same experience here.  Through 1991 and 1992 I
assisted my brother-in-law in shooting weddings with medium format
Mamiyas and then Hasselblads.  I took Realist slides as a "bonus" to the
standard wedding package - just to give him a little differentiation
from the competition.  My brother-in-law selected which weddings I would
do in stereo.  It was his business, his call.  He is pretty good at
"people matters."   

Of the dozen or so weddings I did with him, I did 4 with a 2.8 Realist.
Typically, we gave the bride a gift box with about a dozen slides and a
gift viewer.  Three of the four recipients responded very favorably.
One even remarked they wished we had done more stereo (always leave 'em
wanting more!).  The fourth recipient didn't dislike the results, but
there was no sense of enthusiasm either (must have been the Cyclops
family).  Maybe if we had given a Realist red button viewer instead of a
gift viewer we would have won them over too.

Other than these "professionally" done weddings, I've taken wedding
pictures several times as a guest.  My best compliment came from one of
these weddings.  4 or 5 years after the wedding, I ran into the bride,
not having seen her in the interim.  She had been given several slides I
took on her big day, and when we met again she confided that whenever
she goes to look at her wedding pictures, it's the stereo slides she
takes out.  Her particular favorite is a full length portrait.  Her
special (aren't they all) wedding dress had all the intricate details
captured.  Something, in her mind, and maybe for real, that apparently
was not or could not be satisfactorily accomplished in 2D or with print
film.

Allan Carrano

 

  


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